Supplemental view device



April 16, 1940. op gN 3 2,197,280

SUPPLEMENTAL VIEW DEVICE Filed Sept. 19, 1958 Patented Apr. 16, 1940 f UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Robert Topping, Toledo, Ohio Application September 19, 1938, Serial No. 230,630

1 Claim.

This invention relates to extending the vision range for an occupant of a vehicle especially into lateral proximity.

This invention has utility when incorporated as a reflector system or supplemental to rear view mirrors, to be helpful for backing, close parking, and also to disclose whether there be toward the rear view mirror in Fig. 1, showing details of this bracket mounting scheme;

Fig. 3 is a medial vertical section through the device of Fig/2, showing the bracket and its adjusted mounting on an inclined rear window for a closed body motor vehicle;

Fig. 4 is a section on the line IV-IV, Fig. 3,

showing the mounting of the bracket and of the convex or ray-gathering mirror in the bracket; Fig. 5 is a view of the reflector system as built in a motor vehicle body; and

Fig. 6 is a detail view showing an alternative reflector mounting of wider range adjustments.

Motor vehicle closed body I is shown as having rear view reflector or mirror 2 with adjustable mounting 3 fixing such reflector with the In practice, line of.

car body of the vehicle. vision 4 from the driver or passenger in the vehicle to rear View. mirror 2 has line 5 therefrom through rear window 6 fixedwith the vehicle body. Such range of vision as determined by lines 5 from the rear view mirror have considerable clearance from the range of the rear bumper, spare tire, and taillight. full occasion for the driver to be concerned as to whether there may be children stealing rides on the rear of the car, whether there be suificient clearance for parking or getting into or out of a garage.

Under the invention herein, ray gathering mirror or reflector 1 reflects such received rays 8 to line 9 against plano reflector l0 and such are there effective by way of lines H to supplement the rays or lines 5 in reaching the rear view mirror A and thereby being within the observance range for passenger or driver of the vehicle having observance lines 4 to the mirror 2. The location and dimension of the device herein is one to detract as a minimum from the normal rear view efiectiveness of the mirror 2 as to objects remote from the rear of the car or vehicle.

There is accordingly The device herein embodies bracket 12 having crescent forks I3, l4, l5, therefrom adapted to enter reduced portions I6 back of collars I! in anchoring suction cups l8. These brackets I3, I4, have swivel mountings (9. The bracket I2 is of rigid form and has open work sides 23 between the mirrors or reflectors I, I0, and open work front 2| and open work front and side 22 adjacent the plano or flat mirror or reflector Ill. The mirrors I, I0 each has fixed across the back thereof tube 23. Screws 24 serve to clamp these tubes 23 into the desired angular position for the respective reflectors which are held thereby in parallel axis relationship.

In the instance of the rear window 6 approxi-w mating vertical, suction cup [8 may be directly in the crescent fork I5. Howeveryin the instance that there is a range of inclination for a rear view as window 25- (Fig. 3), straight adjustable leg or extension 26 is adopted, which is of arch form terminating in tang 21 at one end, which may be inserted into a port 28 in the bracket l2 and are portion of the leg extend through the fork l5 to terminal fork 29 wherein the suction cup It may yieldably take the direc-, tion for the proper setting against the inclined rear window 25.

Instead of this accessory as a bracket device, car body 30 may have boss 3|. located thereon with transparent downward portions 32 therefrom, thereby permitting location of reflectors 1,'

H1, in cooperative relation therewith.

In the operation of the device herein, the accessory or equipment is located, as herein shown, in a closed body adjacent the rear window or port region. The open work between the reflectors leaves ample illumination and avoids darkening interference or intercepting of desirable vision range of the one observing or looking into the rear view mirror. However, aslsuch a one localizes the view into the reflector In the gathered or reduced dimension in view lines accumulated in the reflector I bring into the range of vision for observation the general range fully across the rear of the car from bumper termini and in proximity therefrom rearwardly and in between toward the car.

In instances wherein unusual reflector angle conditions are encountered, the reflectors may be mounted (Fig. 6) for lateral as well as horizontal adjustment. To this end, the screws 24 may extend through slots 33 in U-member 34 to be engaged by clamping nuts 35. This permits a lateral tilting of a reflector as to the frame l2 in addition to the angle of adjustment as to the with the section, and a telescopically adjustable leg having a suction cup terminus spaced from the pair of suction cups in providing additional mounting means for the section and as adjustable determining the tilt position of the section on the rockable mounting means in thereby completing anchoring of the device for the independent adjustment of the reflectors as to the mounting means in periscope set up therefor.

ROBERT TOPPING. 

